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Anna Charlotta Petricevic GONE
Three teenage boys disappear from an exclusive suburb in Sydney. The kidnappers contact the boys' families - but two of the boys' dead bodies are found floating in the harbour before any ransom sums have been paid. DS Morgan Callaghan has taken time off work for personal reasons, but now he's called in to lead the investigations of the kidnappings and the murders - and once again, Morgan must face cruelty and violent deaths... During the course of the investigations, it becomes known that inner...
Engels | 10 uur 24 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Alla Peeters | Petra Sleeman Taalmysteries
raadselachtige feiten van grote en kleine talen
Bundeling van opstellen over opgeloste en onopgeloste raadsels uit de taalwetenschap.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 224 pagina's | Lias Uitgeverij, [Hilversum] | 2022
Gedrukt boek
Arlen Hoebergen 'Ik heb vliegangst'
diagnose: paniekstoornis; over een jongetje dat gepest werd
Autobiografisch relaas van een man met vliegangst over de therapie die hij ontving.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 199 pagina's | Elmar, Delft | 2018
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G. K. Chesterton Eugenics and Other Evils
"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all." ‘Eugenics and Other Evils’ (1922) is a magnificent takedown of the entire basis of eugenic thought – the idea that controlled breeding will improve the human population. But it is about far more than eugenics: it is about how evil succeeds...
Engels | 5 uur 13 minuten (235 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Katherine Mansfield In a German Pension
Recovering from a miscarriage and a bad marriage, author Katherine Mansfield, barely 21, wrote these excellent short stories around the time she was staying in a spa town in Germany. With wry humour, she depicts a German upper middle class defined by their rude habits, but she also touches upon the hard life of servants and the oppression of women. The latter distinguishes her writing from that of Jane Austen, but the way in which Mansfield mocks the stiff-upper-lipped ladies and Barons of these...
Engels | 3 uur 35 minuten (163 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Jack London The Call of the Wild
The story takes place in the extreme conditions of the Yukon during the 19th century Klondike Gold Rush, where strong sled dogs were in high demand. After Buck, a domesticated dog, is snatched from a pastoral ranch in California, he is sold into a brutal life as a sled dog. The novella details Buck's struggle to adjust and survive the cruel treatment he receives from humans, other dogs, and nature. He eventually sheds the veneer of civilization altogether and instead relies on primordial instincts...
Engels | 3 uur 23 minuten (154 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Katherine Mansfield Prelude
"There was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother‘s lap was full and Linda Burnell could not possibly have held a lump of a child on hers for any distance." The seemingly perfect Burnell family is moving from one house to another, and on the surface, everything appears idyllic. But as the story develops, the tension grows, threating to explode and expose their true nature. `Prelude‘ (1922) is evidence of Katherine...
Engels | 1 uur 43 minuten (78 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Jack London White Fang
When White Fang – part wolf, part dog – gets separated from his family, he must find a way to survive on his own. In a harsh Canadian environment that means kill or be killed. Tough surroundings and cruel masters make White Fang increasingly more aggressive and wild, but Weedon Scott, a kind gold hunter, sees the dog in him and attempts to tame him. Released in 1906, White Fang – companion novel to The Call of the Wild – was immediately successful, especially among younger readers. Ethan Hawke starred...
Engels | 7 uur 39 minuten (340 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Mary Shelley Mathilda
On her deathbed, Mathilda writes a letter to her only friend, revealing the dark secret of her past, a secret so shameful, she can only manage it now because her time is running out. Written between 1819 and 1820, author Mary Shelley unfortunately never saw this novella published. Though he enjoyed the writing, her father, William Godwin, refused to return the manuscript to her after she asked him to get it published in England, because he found the theme "disgusting and detestable". The world was,...
Engels | 3 uur 54 minuten (177 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Oscar Wilde De Profundis
"But it is a very unimaginative nature that only cares for people on their pedestals. A pedestal may be a very unreal thing. A pillory is a terrific reality." Thus wrote Oscar Wilde in a farewell letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) in 1897 while serving a two-year sentence for "gross indecency with other male persons". In it, he sorts out his life and his love for Bosie, who, he feels, abandoned him to his fate. It is an intensely personal letter that follows the stages of grief and interlaces...
Engels | 1 uur 49 minuten (81 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Louisa May Alcott Eight Cousins
Rose Campbell is having a hard time adjusting to her new life. Recently orphaned, she has been swept away from a strict girls‘ boarding school and placed in the care of her six aunts and seven rowdy male cousins. When her guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, things are about to change once more. To her aunts‘ alarm Alec has different ideas of what it means to raise a girl than most, but his unconventional approach might just be what gets Rose out of her shell. Just as author Louisa May Alcott‘s...
Engels | 7 uur 9 minuten (322 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
"Please, sir, I want some more," Oliver says, holding out his bowl for more gruel, a Dickens scene recognisable to most. A young orphan, Oliver Twist has only ever seen the tough side of life and having to suddenly live on the streets does not make surviving any easier. But being the sweet and innocent boy he is, Oliver eventually manages to attract the compassion of others, and time will reveal secrets about his past that could radically change his bleak future. Originally published in instalments,...
Engels | 14 uur 56 minuten (682 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Allan Pinkerton The Expressman and the Detective
"All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the world‘s first private detective agency. Recounting true events, `The Expressman and the Detective‘ (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a person‘s...
Engels | 7 uur 14 minuten (334 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Roman van Heinric en Margriete van Limborch
Vertaling in modern Nederlands van een middeleeuwse ridderroman uit circa 1300, waarin een broer op zoek gaat naar zijn ontvoerde zus en heldhaftige avonturen beleefd.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 484 pagina's | Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam | 2021
Gedrukt boek
Jerry Newport | Mary Newport Een ongekende wereld
Autobiografische liefdesgeschiedenis van een man en vrouw, respectievelijk een wiskundig en een muzikaal genie, die beiden lijden aan het syndroom van Asperger, een vorm van autisme.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 271 pagina's | The House of Books, Vianen [etc.] | 2007
Gedrukt boek
Taalvoutjes®
het boek
Foto's van grappige Nederlandse en Vlaamse taalmissers.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 152 pagina's | Davidsfonds, [Leuven] | 2013
Gedrukt boek
P.L.P. Brand De stoel van God
Als een 11-jarige jongen met taaislijmziekte in de terminale fase komt, maar een longtransplantatie weigert, komt zijn behandelend arts voor de keus tussen leven en dood te staan.
Fictie
Nederlands | 294 pagina's | Sapienta, Maarn | 2006
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Ron Stoop De gegijzelde economie
een reis door de tijd langs de vernietigende effecten van scheefgroei
Politiek-economische verhandeling over hoe de economische geschiedenis van Nederland en de Westerse wereld de scheefgroei van de huidige economie kan verklaren.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 291 pagina's | Bot Uitgevers, [Voorschoten] | 2022
Gedrukt boek
Clara Törnvall Autisme, vrouwen op het spectrum
Persoonlijk getint essay over de geschiedenis van autisme bij vrouwen en de rol die de autistische vrouw heeft ingenomen in de cultuur.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 172 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Volt, Amsterdam | 2023
E-book
Jos Palm Kind van Maria en Mao
het verhaal van een generatie
Persoonlijk relaas van de Nederlandse journalist over zijn jeugd in de jaren zeventig van de vorige eeuw, toen God in Nederland verdween en plaatsmaakte voor wereldse heiligen zoals Marx, Mao en Lenin.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | ePub2, 5,3 MB | Uitgeverijs Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2023
E-book